Media captionRaffaele Sollecito: "We proved... that I have nothing to do with this murder."

Italian police have found Raffaele Sollecito near the Austrian border after a court reinstated his guilty verdict for the murder of Briton Meredith Kercher in 2007.

Sollecito's passport was confiscated but his lawyer said his client had never thought of fleeing.

Sollecito was given 25 years and his US ex-girlfriend Amanda Knox 28 years and six months in Thursday's ruling.

Knox, who is in the US, said she would fight to avoid extradition to Italy.

Meredith Kercher, 21, from Coulsdon in south London, was stabbed to death in the flat she shared with Knox in the college city of Perugia.

The Kercher family lawyer said that justice had been done.

At a news conference on Friday, Ms Kercher's brother, Lyle, said he believed extradition would be appropriate "if someone has been found guilty and convicted of a murder, and if an extradition law exists between those two countries".

His sister, Stephanie, said: "I think we are still on a journey for the truth and it may be the fact that we don't ever really know what happened that night."

In his first reaction to the decision, Raffaele Sollecito said he had not expected his conviction to be reinstated.

"To me, all of this makes no sense, so I will fight until the end, also because we proved and we showed in many ways that I have nothing to do with this murder," he told NBC News.

Kercher murder: Timeline

1 Nov 07: Meredith Kercher found murdered in her shared flat in Perugia

28 Oct 08: Rudy Guede jailed after being found guilty of murder

4 Dec 09: Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito jailed after being found guilty of murder and sexual violence